16 people reported
All time, since Sep 19, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.
Unrequested agent fan-outs drain usage
“No cost estimate, budget cap, or confirmation before launch.”
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5 bugs in this theme
- Unrequested multi-agent workflows launch and exhaust usage limits without estimate or confNo workaround yet5 people
- Ultracode overspawns agentsNo workaround yet5 people
- Subagents spawned despite instructionsNo workaround yet3 people
- Subagent fan-out exhausts usage limitNo workaround yet2 people
- Review process not scaled to riskNo workaround yet2 people
What's included
- Model spawns a dozen or more parallel subagents or a Workflow for a small task
- Runs start with no cost estimate, budget cap or confirmation
- Standing instructions for light review or no multi-agent work are not followed
- 5-hour or weekly limit is hit mid-run; agents end and work is lost or repeated
- Session ends with a bare "You've hit your session limit" message and no handoff
Not included
- Agents killed at the session limit instead of pausing (separate issue)
- Subagent cache rewrites after 5-minute TTL or sleep/wake
- Cloud sessions self-scheduling hourly check-ins that drain credits
- Long-lived sessions re-reading unbounded context
Original reports16, newest first
- Model launches unrequested background subagents despite loaded zero-autonomy rules#104574
- Claude Code used up my usage on a simple task with a 36-agent workflow I didn't ask for#103122
- Claude launched a 137-agent Workflow for a single-file audit, against a standing "no multi-agent" instruction (~53% of weekly usage in 1 hour)#102248
- Severe: Claude Code runs a multi-hour multi-agent pipeline on a UI-only change and ignores explicit ordering instructions#101695
- Usage Limit Exhausted in ~20 Seconds with Sonnet 5.5, Max Effort, and Ultracode#101441
- Claude Code spawns subagents despite explicit instruction not to#100993
- 176904#99775
- Excessive token consumption and agent proliferation on simple tasks with Opus model#99759
- Orchestrator drifted from the user's ratified light-review tier into fleet-wide full fan-out reviews and burned the weekly usage budget#99376
- Parallel subagents consume 642k tokens, then session ends mid-edit without handoff#99125
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- Claude leans towards git worktrees despite includeGitInstructions=false and instructions not to use git#97916
- Model launches a dozen parallel subagents and exhausts the account usage limit#97129
- You've hit your session limit · resets 2:40am (America/Bogota)#96241
- Agent spawning restriction not enforced, causing unauthorized agent fork and excessive API usage#96142
- Workflow tool spawns uncapped sub-agents causing excessive token usage and API costs#95816
- Agent-initiated multi-agent runs exhaust the 5-hour window with no estimate and no warning#95600